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Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



https://twitter.com/bethbourdon/status/1392865275268247561?s=20

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KnifeWrench
May 25, 2007

Practical and safe.

Bleak Gremlin

Fame Douglas posted:

QR codes are widely used, do they require any amount of trust in them by the public? I don't get that tweet. I guess people showing their tickets on their phones trust that the QR code they display will get them through the barrier?

they were a running joke for a long time because brands would attempt to shoehorn them into the public consciousness as a worse version of a URL

as a result, it's not exactly unfair to make a lazy joke about people not liking them

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

dogcoin really is the rapecoin huh

repiv
Aug 13, 2009

has elon said buttcoin yet?

Chris Knight
Jun 5, 2002

me @ ur posts


Fun Shoe

repiv posted:

has elon said buttcoin yet?
yes, only to grimes

njsykora
Jan 23, 2012

Robots confuse squirrels.


KnifeWrench posted:

they were a running joke for a long time because brands would attempt to shoehorn them into the public consciousness as a worse version of a URL

as a result, it's not exactly unfair to make a lazy joke about people not liking them

these days it’s more of a “oh right those exist” thing, and they’re less seen on advertising and more as shortcuts to online support in paper manuals so people are less hostile to them

Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Slippery Tilde
Hello I hope this message finds you well. I am Jeremy Powell the president of the Federal Reserve Bank. I am conducting a public interest survey as part of our research into Bitcoin digital currency. To participate please send up to $1000 and we will send it back along with instructions to obtain an equal amount of Bitcoin. Rest assured that as America’s central bank we are fully prepared to honor these terms.

KnifeWrench
May 25, 2007

Practical and safe.

Bleak Gremlin

njsykora posted:

these days it’s more of a “oh right those exist” thing, and they’re less seen on advertising and more as shortcuts to online support in paper manuals so people are less hostile to them

yeah, I did say it was a lazy joke

Shumagorath
Jun 6, 2001

Gazpacho posted:

Hello I hope this message finds you well. I am Jeremy Powell the president of the Federal Reserve Bank. I am conducting a public interest survey as part of our research into Bitcoin digital currency. To participate please send up to $1000 and we will send it back along with instructions to obtain an equal amount of Bitcoin. Rest assured that as America’s central bank we are fully prepared to honor these terms.

2019:

quote:

From Desk Of Mr. Michael R. Pompeo
USA Secretary of State
Refund Payment Committee
Federal Executive Council Washington DC USA.


Good Day,

This letter is written in order to change your life from today. Please note that this letter came to you as a result of information received from our monitoring network regarding so much payments which you sent through Western Union and Money Gram to Europe, USA, Asia and Africa and some other part of the World without receiving any payment to your name, further investigation reveals that you have lost hope towards receiving your payment after being deceived so many times.

Following the on going re-branding of USA policies, the Federal Government of USA have directed our committee to compensate/refund the sum of $6,500,000 to you through payment by ATM CARD being one of the most convenient means of receiving payment World Wide, Bank to Bank Transfer. We wish to inform you that the members of Refund Payment Committee are honorable men of Great Repute and integrity who have served the Government of USA in different capacities.

we also wish to inform you that the Committee members were appointed by our respected President Donald Trump to pay 250 million Dollars to the listed beneficiaries that have lost their money to the scammer and have not yet receive their total sum.

Contact Mr Michael Moon member of the Refund Payment Committee, he will guide you on how your payment will be release to you. Please let him know that this letter is from Mr. Michael R. Pompeo Secretary of State.

His Contact Details:

Name: Mr Michael Moon
Email: unagentmoon@gmail.com

In order for you to receive your payment this week, you are advice to contact Mr Michael Moon on his email and make sure you ANSWERS to the Questions below.


(1) Your Full Name
(2) Your Direct telephone. Fax Number ( if any)
(3) How Many Months Or Years in which You Have Been Expecting your Payment
(4) The Place you sent Money Last whether Nigeria or London,Malaysia,Benin Republic etc
(5) The Last Amount of Money You sent indicating What Month and Year


From Mr. Michael R. Pompeo
USA Secretary of State
Refund Payment Committee
Federal Executive Council Washington DC USA.

2021:

quote:

Greetings!

I have got two not really pleasant news for you.
I have been monitoring your internet activities for some time by now.

The only person to blame in this situation is you, since you are a big fan of adult websites and also have got an uncontrollable desire to indulge yourself with another orgasm.
Simply speaking, all your porn websites search requests have become a key to access your device.
The thing is that I word in a company that provides services related to security and performance of email providers, including <redacted but it's Google hosted so LOL> as well.

During the pandemic outbreak a lot of providers have faced difficulties in maintaining a huge number of staff in their offices and so they have decided to use outsourcing instead.
While working remotely from home, I have got unlimited abilities to access the user databases.

I can easily decrypt passwords of users, access their chat history and online traffic with help of cookie-files.
I have decided to analyse users traffic related to adult websites and adult content.
I was truly shocked to discover that nearly 75% of users regularly access porn websites or participates in sex chats.

I have filtered out the worst perverts from the list. Yeah, you are one of them. Not everyone chooses to watch such hardcore videos...
Basically, I have infected your device with one of the best Trojan viruses in the market. It was relatively easy, since I have access to your email address <redacted>.
It was sufficient to prepare one of your routine emails asking you to click the harmful link...

My spyware functions as a driver. Hence, I can fully control your device and have access to your microphone, camera, cursor and set of symbols.
Generally speaking, your device is some sort of my remote PC.
Since this spyware is driver-based, then I can constantly update its signatures, so that no antivirus can detect it.
While digging through your hard drive, I have saved your entire contact list, social media access, chat history and media files.

One week ago, I have montaged a videoclip, which shows you masturbating on one side of the screen and on the other side a porn video that you were watching at that moment of time - recently this type of exotic stuff is really popular on the internet!
Don't worry, I will need just a few mouse clicks in order to share this video with your entire contact list and upload it to some porn website, like Bigle.
I believe that you would not like this to happen, since a long holiday season is just about to start soon - just imagine the number of silly jokes and loud laughter that would get provoked by your video all over the neighbourhood bars and pubs...

I am offering a simple and reasonable solution:
All you need to do is transfer an amount equivalent to $1450 (USA Dollars) to my bitcoin wallet and we both forget about this silly story forever.
All your data and this video will be deleted by me once and for all. You have my honest word!
You've got to agree, this amount is really insignificant. Just imagine how much time and resources I have spent to get this done...
If you don't know how to operate the cryptocurrency - you can always search for assistance online. It is that simple.

Here is my bitcoin wallet (BTC): 1LsTK4<oops>KaUGMXgbqo4<nope>3Vc7quu6<proof of burn>vATjfz

You have exactly 2 days (48 hours) from the moment of opening this email.
I can easily track when you have opened this email (my software will notify me about it). Once you complete the transaction - I will be able to see and confirm that.
Please, do not try replying me via this email - there is no point in that (I have generated the header of this email as well as return address).

Remember that there is no point to complain anywhere, since I cannot be found (Bitcoin system is anonymous and I am also using I2P network in order to access your device).
I have considered all the small details.
In case, if 48 hours after you have opened this email, I still don't receive the required amount of money, then your videoclip will be automatically sent to all your contact list and uploaded to public websites.

Good luck and please don't hate me too much!

This is life! You are merely out of luck this time.
Who knows, maybe next time you will get lucky at something else...

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

killhamster posted:

has anybody said horsecoin

If it wasn't for my horsecoin, I wouldn't have spent that year in college

junan_paalla
Dec 29, 2009

Seriously, do drugs
i invested all my savings in horsecoin and deposited it in my BoaTwallet, i have a very good feeling about this. the upkeep costs seem crazy at first, but the upside is astronomical!

DerekSmartymans
Feb 14, 2005

The
Copacetic
Ascetic

gschmidl posted:

Of loving course they're called Atlas.
:shrug:

DerekSmartymans
Feb 14, 2005

The
Copacetic
Ascetic

SubG posted:

proof of dingleberries

Yak futures looking bullish on unbelievable graphs, if I had a graphics card, that is.

divabot
Jun 17, 2015

A polite little mouse!
Facebook announced some more dumb and pointless bullshit with Libra aka Diem, I wrote it up

bit that may be new to you: Silvergate Bank, the actual national bank of crypto

Chris Knight
Jun 5, 2002

me @ ur posts


Fun Shoe
jfc

https://twitter.com/kevinroose/status/1393205234055352326

https://twitter.com/rhhackett/status/1393179526474223622

Antlerhill
Nov 6, 2012

Smellrose
blue chip company twitter lol

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish
ealom usk is going to murder that man

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

Dude axes your door

“Here’s Dogey!!!!”

mediaphage
Mar 22, 2007

Excuse me, pardon me, sheer perfection coming through
how many “rags” folks can lay their hands on $250k lmaoooooo gently caress

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

it's likely that he was just already rich, yeah. so many of these startup stories begin with "i put together a presentation and my parents and four of their friends each invested $100,000"

but

didn't robinhood for some time have some bug/feature where you could start with 100 dollars, short a stock, take those paper gains and buy more stock to short, repeat until you were a paper millionaire but leveraged 1 million percent? or something like that? maybe he did that

Fame Douglas
Nov 20, 2013

by Fluffdaddy
I'm going to assume the profile would mention something like that. This is a person that wanted an article about themselves, after all.

xtal
Jan 9, 2011

by Fluffdaddy

The article posted:

“HODLing” — an acronym favored by cryptocurrency traders that stands for “hold on for dear life”

Lol

Fame Douglas
Nov 20, 2013

by Fluffdaddy
Kinda fun that a misspelling has become an acronym.

SubG
Aug 19, 2004

It's a hard world for little things.
and if you borrowed 250k to buy something in feb and sold it for 2M in may then between the original debt and your short term cap gains taxes you'd owe like a million on the two you "earned". less if he holds onto it for a year but lol at hodling doge for a year if you happen to be above water on it

cool av
Mar 2, 2013

look, there's no taxes on the moon

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish
hofdl

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

EorayMel
May 30, 2015

WE GET IT. YOU LOVE GUN JESUS. Toujours des fusils Bullpup Français.

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Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish
well that's extremely unpleasant to look at

xtal
Jan 9, 2011

by Fluffdaddy

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish
oh hey it's that racist guy, cool

xtal
Jan 9, 2011

by Fluffdaddy
No that's a deer

Chris Knight
Jun 5, 2002

me @ ur posts


Fun Shoe
doe!

Hammerite
Mar 9, 2007

And you don't remember what I said here, either, but it was pompous and stupid.
Jade Ear Joe

Boxturret posted:

well that's extremely unpleasant to look at

Yes. especially if you're a deer

Elysiume
Aug 13, 2009

Alone, she fights.

Boxturret posted:

oh hey it's that racist guy, cool
wait what, I recognize the av but this would be news to me

Chris Knight
Jun 5, 2002

me @ ur posts


Fun Shoe
ugh
https://twitter.com/jack/status/1393310054355451904

gschmidl
Sep 3, 2011

watch with knife hands


Shut the gently caress up and go back to coddling nazis on your garbage platform, jack.

Elysiume
Aug 13, 2009

Alone, she fights.
even if I actively eschew cynicism and the like I cannot think of a single thing that bitcoin has changed for the better

if jack wasn't a dipshit nazi maybe I'd consider further

Grace Baiting
Jul 20, 2012

Audi famam illius;
Cucurrit quaeque
Tetigit destruens.



Best Bi Geek Squid posted:

Cash and Cash Equivalents and Other Short-Term Deposits and Commercial Paper Rules Everything Around Me
:hmmyes: CaCEaOSTDaCPREAM

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Grace Baiting
Jul 20, 2012

Audi famam illius;
Cucurrit quaeque
Tetigit destruens.



Blotto_Otter posted:

loving lol at the categories they used. "Cash & Cash Equivalents & Other Short-term Deposits & Commercial Paper", because maybe people won't care that the vast majority of our reserve is unsecured loans to unspecified and unregulated parties if we sprinkle a dusting of cash and t-bills on top. "Corporate Bonds, Funds, and Precious Metals" because it's completely normal to group corporate bonds and gold bars and "funds" (???) together, it's all basically the same thing.

if there's one thing i know about Funds it's that they Are Safe so i don't see the problem here

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